Every team thinks they're a team of destiny.

From the nj.com Yankees weblog on September 23, 2006:

"It is as fun to be a Yankee fan right now as we can remember since, oh, late October of 2000. We certainly aren't the only ones feeling the swagger of this Yankees team. Yankee Nation is alive and as frenzied as we can ever remember. We are waiting, no, clamoring for October to begin, where we will really see what this team can do."


From the nj.com Yankees weblog on October 1, 2005:

"This is one time when we just know that all the hyperbole, superlatives and cliches wouldn't describe the sheer madness of this 2005 season.

But the rational half of us screams that one thing is for certain: there is no reason this team can't win the World Series this year. Sure, they're not as good as some people thought they would be. But they're certainly not as bad as some people thought they were back in April. And best of all, after all the talk about the 2005 Yankees not being a team--that they were just a bunch of individual players playing together--they've proven that the opposite is the truth. And that's why this season has been more fun than usual. These 2005 Yankees are gritty. They are tough. And they are resilient. They are the opposite of their professionalist counterparts of seasons past.

And that's exactly why they can win the World Series."


It's really not a big deal. Every team that makes the playoffs has a chance to win it and no team has any guarantees. Every fan base ought to be excited every year their team makes the playoffs.

I am just not sure why the 2006 Yankees supposedly have newfound swagger or why the 2006 season was supposedly more fun than the others.

I don't see all that much swagger right now. I saw Mike Mussina lose a game at Tampa Bay as the Yankees lost the ALCS home field advantage to the Tigers.

How's about a little less swagger and a little more covering first base on groundballs to the right side?